Born in the Dominican Republic, Inês Thomas Almeida is a musicologist and hired integrated researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), where she works on her project FEMUS 18 - Female music practice in 18th-century Portugal: Spaces and profiles of women making music, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for 2024-2030 under the 6th edition of the internationally competitive Scientific Employment Stimulus Programm. She is Co-Coordinator of the Thematic Line of Research Studies on Women, Gender and Sexuality at the Institute of Ethnomusicology: Centre of Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md).

She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, USA, invited by FLAD- Luso-American Development Foundation and the Saab Center for Portugueses Studies at UMASS Lowell, where she will be teaching two seminars between January and May 2025.

She is a collaborator at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT), where, between 2022 and 2024, following her PhD, she carried out Post-Doctoral research within the project RELIT-Rom Literary Revisions: the creative application of ancient novels (15th-18th centuries), funded by FCT. In this context, she created, developed and implemented a database for the musical versions of old romances in Portuguese letters and was co-responsible, together with IP Teresa Araújo, for the poetic-musical catalogue.

She is a guest lecturer on the PhD in Gender Studies at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is responsible for creating the course Women Composers: History of Female Composition from Middle Ages to the 21st Century, which she teaches at the same university. 

Born in the Dominican Republic, she studied piano at the Gregorian Institute in Lisbon. As a student on the Music Course, she twice received the University of Évora's Merit Scholarship, awarded to the best student on each course. She lived in Germany between 2003 and 2016, having completed a degree in singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock (2007) and created an NGO to support the Portuguese community in Berlin. In this context, she was responsible for numerous cultural, social and humanitarian initiatives and received several honours for her services to the community. In 2021, for her doctoral thesis O olhar alemão: as práticas musicais em Portugal no final do Antigo Regime segundo fontes alemãs, under the supervision of Rui Vieira Nery, she was unanimously awarded the highest classification. 

She is a member of several international research societies, most notably the Austrian Society for 18th Century Research, for which she develops the ÖGE18 Bücherkiste Update project for the scientific dissemination of books on 18th century research topics.

She is the Science Communication Coordinator, Representative for Portugal and a member of the Management Committee of COST-Action 23137: PCPSCE - Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500-1800), funded by the COST-Association: European Cooperation in Science and Technology, for 2024-2028, which brings together more than a hundred researchers from 21 countries.

She was deputy curator of the exhibition Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão (1923-1989): vamos correr riscos, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2023), and co-author, with Rui Vieira Nery, of the book Vamos Correr Riscos: Textos escolhidos de Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão (Tinta-da-China, 2023). She has published articles in specialist scientific journals and maintains an intense activity as a lecturer, both at national and international conferences and as a music promoter at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the São Carlos National Theatre. 

Her research focuses on music in the 18th century, travelogues, women in music, ancient romance music, and transnational cultural networks.